0 a gold coin from the ancient Roman empire:
The Emperor Constantine is recognisable from a solidus, a gold coin dating from AD316.
1 the symbol / used in writing to separate numbers, letters, or words:
After Justinian the gold solidus always showed emperors and empresses face-on.
The coins found are gold solidi and silver siliquae, produced under a range of emperors of the late 4th to early 5th century.
The letters LSD once denoted English money in pre-decimalisation days: librae, solidi, denarii, the Latin forms of pounds, shillings and pence.
The record shows that the wax for the candle was purchased for three solidi.
The number to the left of the solidus is the number of replicates.
Numbers following a solidus indicate the year of isolation.
The "hyperpyron" was slightly smaller than the solidus.
